OWASP Jobs in the North of England

Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for OWASP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited OWASP over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 381 357
Rank change year-on-year +37 -24 -20
Permanent jobs citing OWASP 47 58 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.27% 0.34% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.35% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 42 32 81
10th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £34,500
25th Percentile £56,390 £41,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £79,842 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.17% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £84,919 £87,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £95,000 £70,000
England median annual salary £70,000 £85,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +30.77% -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

OWASP is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,596 16,661 16,858
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.43% 96.88% 93.91%
Number of salaries quoted 11,211 7,954 10,621
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

OWASP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing OWASP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing OWASP in the North of England.

Salary trend for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing OWASP in the North of England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for OWASP in the North of England

OWASP
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing OWASP within the North of England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +2 32 £61,206 +39.90% 4
Yorkshire +74 11 £79,842 -15.96% 2
North East - 4 £79,842 - 1
OWASP
England

OWASP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 32 (68.09%) AWS
2 31 (65.96%) Azure
3 5 (10.64%) SaaS
4 3 (6.38%) Serverless
5 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.13%) IaaS
6 1 (2.13%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (55.32%) SD-WAN
1 26 (55.32%) WAN
2 3 (6.38%) Wireless
3 2 (4.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Burp Suite
3 3 (6.38%) Metasploit
4 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
4 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 2 (4.26%) Gradle
5 1 (2.13%) Moq
5 1 (2.13%) NUnit
5 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (29.79%) Public Sector
2 4 (8.51%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.26%) Back Office
3 2 (4.26%) Law
4 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.13%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 29 (61.70%) Architect
2 26 (55.32%) Security Architect
3 20 (42.55%) Lead
3 20 (42.55%) Lead Architect
3 20 (42.55%) Lead Security Architect
4 8 (17.02%) Developer
4 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Architect
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Security Architect
6 5 (10.64%) Security Specialist
7 4 (8.51%) Information Security Specialist
7 4 (8.51%) Information Specialist
8 3 (6.38%) Penetration Tester
8 3 (6.38%) Technical Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Tester
8 3 (6.38%) Web Developer
9 2 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Node.js Developer
9 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
10 1 (2.13%) Senior Information Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) .NET
1 4 (8.51%) HTML
2 3 (6.38%) Node.js
3 2 (4.26%) .NET Core
3 2 (4.26%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.26%) CSS
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
3 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
3 2 (4.26%) YAML
4 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.13%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.13%) HTML5
4 1 (2.13%) jQuery
4 1 (2.13%) React
4 1 (2.13%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (2.13%) Vue
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (59.57%) Management Information System
2 26 (55.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) IoT
3 3 (6.38%) Mobile App
3 3 (6.38%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Kali Linux
1 3 (6.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (72.34%) Information Security
2 29 (61.70%) Application Security
3 26 (55.32%) Identity Management
3 26 (55.32%) Secure Coding
3 26 (55.32%) Security Architecture
4 22 (46.81%) CI/CD
5 11 (23.40%) Coaching
6 10 (21.28%) Agile
6 10 (21.28%) Security Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Mentoring
7 9 (19.15%) TDD
8 8 (17.02%) Microservices
9 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
9 6 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (12.77%) Decision-Making
9 6 (12.77%) Penetration Testing
10 4 (8.51%) Cloud Security
10 4 (8.51%) Red Team
10 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
10 4 (8.51%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
2 5 (10.64%) Java
3 4 (8.51%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) SQL
3 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.38%) Python
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.13%) Ada
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (57.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 27 (57.45%) AWS Certification
1 27 (57.45%) Cisco Certification
1 27 (57.45%) CISSP
2 26 (55.32%) Azure Certification
2 26 (55.32%) CCSK
2 26 (55.32%) CCSP
2 26 (55.32%) CISM
3 7 (14.89%) OSCP
4 4 (8.51%) OSCE
5 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (6.38%) CREST Certified
5 3 (6.38%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.13%) CCA
6 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Degree
6 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (55.32%) NIST
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NCSC
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 28 (59.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 28 (59.57%) Kubernetes
2 26 (55.32%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.38%) Nessus
3 3 (6.38%) Nmap
4 2 (4.26%) Grafana
4 2 (4.26%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Qualys
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle